Christianity
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Syriac Echoes: From the Mountains of Lebanon to the Coasts of Kerala
The author traces shared Syriac Christian roots between Lebanon’s Maronites and Kerala’s Saint Thomas Christians, arguing both belong to one ancient liturgical world, and notes that Lebanon’s Maronites, Sunnis, Shiʿites…
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Vivek Ramaswamy and Hinduism
A quoted extract on Vivek Ramaswamy presenting his Hindu faith to Christian voters, including the need to address the polytheism question, and his anti-wokeism pitch as a way to counter…
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Christian conversions in rural India
Razib Khan quotes a New York Times report on mob attacks and conversion-law arrests of Christians in India, reads it sceptically as a Cow Belt, Dalit-convert phenomenon, notes Hindus are…
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Religious books in Hotel rooms
Nachiketa recalls finding Bibles and Qurans in the rooms of Kenyan wildlife lodges, learns it is common in the United States, and wonders why scriptures are placed in hotels, contrasting…
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Book Review: Dominion, by Tom Holland
Omar Ali reviews Tom Holland’s Dominion as well written and researched but ultimately Christian apologetics from a liberal angle, challenging its thesis that humanist values such as equality, care for…
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Resilience in the face of religious change
Razib Khan extends Gibbon’s argument that paganism could not reverse the rise of Christianity: religions with a class of devoted ideological professionals, like Christianity, Confucianism and Brahmin-led Hinduism, can recover…
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The myth of Arabian paganism, and the Jewish-Christian origins of the Umayyads
Citing a Twitter thread, the author notes that religious inscriptions from sixth-century Arabia appear invariably Christian rather than pagan, which sits uneasily with Islamic tradition and the Book of Idols’…
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What is in a name?
Starting from the origins of Martin Luther’s name, the author questions why Indian converts to Christianity often take ‘Christian names’ to avoid pagan references, noting that European converts kept names…
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BrownCast Episode 12: The global China, with Carl Zha
Razib Khan talks to Carl Zha about how the media portrays China, whether China is a colonialist power in Africa, Christianity in China and the diaspora, and ethnic relations involving…
